In my happy place hanging out in Scarborough Museums and Galleries stores 🖤

I love this old Fossil Grove booklet held in the Scarborough Collections - it cost one shilling when it was published in 1948 🖤 As part of #ScotGeolFest there’s an open day on Sun 18th from 12-4, head along to visit this fossilised Carboniferous forest in the heart of Glasgow 🎉

Today's Wordle seems to be upsetting people. Wordle 454 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Here's a clue from the grave goods of Gristhorpe Man.

The answer to last week's mystery object: paoloviscardi.com/2022/10/21/fri…

Projecting the #eclipse here in sunny #Scarborough

All hail the Scarborough Snorker!

Well, this is rather wonderful! A zoomable geology map of the world! macrostrat.org/map/

Sure is pretty in the frost.

A Jolly Christmas to you.

In honour of Scarborough's NYE visit by Thor the Walrus, here's a little walrus treat from the William Clarke Charms Collection. Inuit amulets from Parry's Island. Made out of walrus ivory. Likely used as fishing equipment utilising the lure of sympathetic magic...

As we've entered the new #LunarNewYear and it's the #YearOfTheRabbit here's a picture of some gentlemen judging a rabbit competition from our photo archives 🐰🐰🐰...

Looks like Thor has made it to Iceland. Compare the scars on his front flipper...

Flying high over #Scarborough in Henri Salmet's Bleriot monoplane must have been quite an #adventure during the summer of 1913! #EYAAdventure #ExploreYourArchive

Siege coins were emergency issues of coinage improvised by officials in cities under siege, and often cut up from dinnerware & jewellery. Here's a short history just published by CoinWeek: coinweek.com/emergency-mone…

It's #WorldEnvironmentDay! How can Museums contribute to environmental knowledge? Biological collections hold millions of samples of species collected from known locations on known dates. This can help demonstrate canges in distribution as well as being a huge scource for DNA.

This jolly #Xmas circular (1882) for #shopping at W Rowntree's of #Scarborough promises "fancy goods" suitable for Christmas and New Year's presents #ArchiveAdventCalendar ARA Scotland

Although they're extinct, we're still learning about this brilliant bird. Our collection holds six amazing great auk eggs – one is almost 250 years old! In 2017, we started a project with The University of Sheffield to study the eggs, which is teaching us about the bird's breeding ecology🤯

It's #WorldMonkeyDay 🐒🐒🐒 Here from the Clarke Charms Collection we have two soapstone 'Silent Monkeys' 🙊. A popular good luck charm durning WW1, one of which was carried by a Scarborough soldier during the Great War.

A clear night on my birthday gave an opportunity to image M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.